Gene Expression Profiling of RNA Extracted from FFPE Tissues: NuGEN Technologies’ Whole-Transcriptome Amplification System

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 724, Issue , 2011, Pages 269-280

  Turner, Leah ^a   Heath, Joe Don ^a   Kurn, Nurith ^a  

^a NuGEN Technologies Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

FFPE; Gene expression; Isothermal linear amplification

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA MICROARRAY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TISSUE FIXATION;

DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; FORMALDEHYDE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RNA; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 79958264643     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-055-3_17     Document Type: Chapter

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